2026 Inductees

Few curlers can claim the level of success that Cathy has achieved throughout her career. In fact, she has won Saskatchewan provincial championships in every category for which she was eligible. 

Cathy’s success began in 1978 when she skipped the YRHS team to her first major title, capturing the SHSAA High School Provincial Championship. 

In 1996 she joined Randy and Russ Bryden, along with her sister Karen and together they won the Saskatchewan Mixed Championship and advanced to the Canadian Mixed Championship in Charlottetown, PEI. In a thrilling back-and-forth final against Ontario’s Rich Moffatt rink, Saskatchewan prevailed when Randy Bryden drew for two in the extra end, securing an 8-6 victory and the gold medal. The win ended a 12-year national mixed championship drought for Saskatchewan.

Cathy added another milestone in 1998 when her women’s team captured the Saskatchewan Women’s Championship. Representing the province on home ice in Regina at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, her team finished fourth, just shy of the podium. She repeated her mixed curling success in 2003 by once again claiming a Saskatchewan Mixed Championship, this time alongside Bryan Derbowka, Gerry Adam, and her sister Karen while representing the Yorkton Curling Club. The team earned a bronze medal at the Canadian Mixed Championship in Abbotsford, BC, and Cathy was named the tournament’s All-Star Third.

In 2013 Cathy joined Pat Kuspira, Donna Liebrecht and Bev Fuchs to capture the Saskatchewan Senior Women’s Championship. The victory earned them the coveted green jackets and a trip to the Canadian Senior Championship in Summerside, PEI. As if once wasn’t enough, they did it all again in 2015, earning another provincial title and advancing to the Canadian Senior Championship in Edmonton, where they finished with a strong 9-3 round robin, placing fourth overall in the country. Along the way, Cathy was recognized for her outstanding play, earning Second Team All-Star Skip honours in PEI and All-Star Skip honours in Edmonton.

In 2023, Cathy added yet another achievement, playing lead for skip Nancy Martin, third Deanna Doig, and Second Nancy Inglis as they captured the Saskatchewan Senior Women’s Championship in Tisdale, SK. With a 10-2 overall record in the Canadian championship, they earned their spot in the final but fell 10-4 to Ontario.

Most recently in the spring of 2026, Cathy skipped a team featuring her sister Joan McCusker at third, Pat Kuspira at second, and Bev Fuchs at lead to an undefeated 6-0 record at the Saskatchewan Masters Championship. Team Saskatchewan narrowly missed out on the chance to play the Gold medal game after an 8-7 semi-final loss to the host AB team. But, with a dominant win over Team MB, they brought home a bronze medal from the Canadian Masters Championship in Grande Prairie.

When Andy Wyatt was growing up in Chilliwack B.C., soccer was one of the major sports played in the province at many levels. There in the Fraser Valley he played soccer in elementary school on the school team, and one year for a club team. The family then moved to Yorkton in 1984, and his budding soccer career came to, what was for Andy, an unwelcome hold. At St. Joseph's Junior High and there wasn't any school soccer, nor were there any active soccer clubs in Yorkton for youth.

On Mondays Andy went to watch his older brother Chris play with Sacred Heart High School, looking forward to when he would be old enough to go to Sacred Heart. That happened in 1986, when he also made the high school team. In grades 10 and 11 the school had a strong team in league play, and it competed at indoor soccer provincials. The Sacred Heart team was coached by John Ryder, who Andy credits with teaching him and his team mates much about the game of soccer.

In 1989 he entered the University of Saskatchewan and joined a men's indoor team with some former Yorkton players and played in Saskatoon adult league in lower divisions. But when he moved back to Yorkton in 1996, soccer here had grown and youth programs started to offer some competitive programming. There was adult recreational co-ed soccer and Andy and others put together men's teams. Yorkton’s competitive youth program developed some strong players and a few experienced soccer players moved to Yorkton. Before too long, the Yorkton team started to win the Division 2 tournaments. That prompted them to get more serious and train regularly. So unlike most players, his competitive soccer career didn't start as a youth player, it really started when he was in his late 20s.

As the team improved, they moved up to Division 1 tournaments and started to do well there. Andy played regularly and was one of the leaders on teams that won the top Regina leagues. Due to they success in Regina, in 2005 they joined the highest level of men's soccer, the Saskatchewan Premier League. 

Andy coached and played against the best teams from Regina and Saskatoon. They trained hard and won the league in 2005 but lost in the playoffs. They came back stronger and in 2007 and 2008, Andy was a starter on the men's team that won provincials and represented Saskatchewan at Nationals. He coached, but at the same time also played in most of the games at the three Nationals at which the Yorkton teams competed. After that, he continued to play regularly for many more years at the Division 1 and Division 2 level, and on some Master's teams.

His work as a builder of soccer in Yorkton goes back at least 30 years, having coached all age groups and both male and female players since the 1990s. He served on the original board when Yorkton United Football Club was founded in 2001, and later became Technical Director for Yorkton United when it assumed responsibility for all soccer programming in the city, following the closure of the Yorkton Soccer Association.

Over the years, Andy has coached countless players, many of whom went on to play at the university level, while others continued playing into their adult years simply for the love of the game. He coached many teams to provincial soccer and futsal titles over his career, most notable the provincial soccer league titles in 2007 and 2008. For that and other contributions to the fame, Andy was recognized by Sask Soccer as the Grassroots Coach of the Year in 2008. 

He also coached the team that won the men's futsal SaskCup in 2025. (Futsal is a scaled-down, smaller version of soccer, played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than the standard soccer pitch – generally indoor gymnasiums.)

Andy Wyatt’s impact on the Yorkton United soccer programs in our city is immeasurable. Nearly every coach within the organization has either been coached directly by him or benefited from his mentorship and guidance over the years.

Karen Cottenie is inducted as both an athlete and a builder in the sport of curling. Karen curled for many years with her sister Cathy, and while she excelled alongside Cathy, she also built an impressive legacy of her own. Karen began curling at a young age, learning the game by joining her parents on the ice in Saltcoats whenever they needed an extra player. The opportunity to curl alongside her mom and dad became a powerful motivation, inspiring a lifelong passion for the sport and leading to tremendous success as both a competitor and a coach.

Karen curled with the Yorkton Regional High School women's team from 1984 to 1986. In Grade 11, she played alongside skip Heather Torrie, third Heather Olson Walsh, and lead Barb Burkell Woytas. After winning the Regina Christmas Bonspiel, the team, along with coach Flo Sanna, earned the opportunity to represent Canada at an international event in Germany. In her final year of high school, Karen skipped her junior team to a gold medal at the Saskatchewan Winter Games, which were held in Yorkton in 1986. She then joined the University of Saskatchewan women's curling team, where she skipped from 1987 to 1990. 

As she began her teaching career, Karen continued to compete at a high level. When she returned to Yorkton she skipped a women's team from 1997 to 2015 alongside Leslie Adam, Kathy Pearson, Bonnie McGerrigle, Jen Dutchak, Trisha Korzak, Pat Kuspira and Bev Fuches. In 1996 she and her sister Cathy and the Bryden brothers captured the Saskatchewan Mixed Provincial Championship, and advanced to the Canadian Mixed Championship in Prince Edward Island, returning home with a national gold medal. Two years later they returned to the Provincial Mixed Championship, earning a silver medal. In recognition of their achievement, the Bryden Canadian Championship team was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. 

After returning to Yorkton, Karen joined a mixed team with Brian Derbowka, Cathy Inglis, and Gerry Adam. Together, they captured the Saskatchewan Mixed Provincial Championship in 2003.

While Karen's accomplishments on the ice are impressive, her impact as a builder of the sport is equally remarkable. Over a 30-year coaching career, she was driven by a desire to "give back to the sport that gave so much to me." She developed and led Learn to Curl programs for students in Grades 4 through 12 and helped establish and expand curling development programs in Yorkton, Whitewood, Moose Jaw, and Balcarres. Karen also coached numerous high school teams in Yorkton, including her stepson Tyler's team, which earned a bronze medal at the Western Canadian Championships. Even while teaching at the elementary level, she remained dedicated to growing the sport and helping young athletes at the high school reach their potential.

At a young age in Yorkton, Jeff Sharp tried playing hockey. After several instances knocking over opponents accidentally, stopping the flow of the game to apologize and help them up, it was clear that Jeff was in the wrong ice sport.

While watching his parents Ivan and Millie and grandparents curl, Jeff used every opportunity during or after their games to jump out on an open sheet of ice and try throwing rocks. Curling became natural to him and his uncle Warren Sharp qualifying and curling in the 1982 Brier in Regina solidified his love of curling and inspired his future growth and development in the sport.

Jeff played junior curling here Yorkton, later mentoring young teams. He was on the Pat Simmons rink that won four consecutive men’s provincial Tankard championships from 2005 to 2008 and then competing as Team Saskatchewan at those year’s Briers. This team also was a three time Saskatchewan provincial Tankard runner up. 

At the 2008 Brier in Winnipeg, the team won the national bronze medal, coming so close to playing in the Brier championship final, but fell to Kevin Martin’s Team Alberta on the final shot. Featuring Pat Simmons as skip and Jeff as third, also on the team were Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame inductees Gerry Adam and Steve Laycock, fifth Warren Jackson and coach Barry Fiendell. 

Jeff’s team also competed at the 2009 Canada Roar of the Rings Olympic Trials in Edmonton. During the trials, the team was the only one to beat the eventual champion and Team Canada representative and eventual Olympic Gold Medalist, the Kevin Martin team.

Throughout his career, Jeff won multiple World Curling Tour titles, competed in the 1999 TSN Skins Game in Fredericton NB along with local curler Bryan Derbowka; qualified for 10 consecutive World Curling Tour Players Championship Grand Slams and ranked in the top 10 in world rankings in multiple years. The team competed in and was the 2005 champion in Japan at the Karuizawa International Tournament , which was a Nagano Olympic Memorial Curling Event. Jeff has given back to the sport of curling, having hosted and volunteered for a number of curling clinics for juniors and adults over the years.

Despite so many accomplishments in his career, curling provincially and nationally and at several cash spiels while rubbing elbows with the best, Jeff states his most memorable and proud achievement was winning the Yorkton Men's Bonspiel along with his Uncle Warren Sharp and father Ivan Sharp.